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afe3ab58 1Bugfixes:
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3* Should systemctl status \* work on all unit types, not just .service?
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5* Dangling symlinks of .automount unit files in .wants/ directories, set up
6 automount points even when the original .automount file did not exist
7 anymore. Only the .mount unit was still around.
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8adaf7bd 9* ExecStart with unicode characters fails in strv_split_extract:
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11 [Service]
12 Environment=ONE='one' "TWO='two two' too" THREE=
13 ExecStart=/bin/python3 -c 'import sys;print(sys.argv)' $ONE $TWO $THREE
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15* When systemctl --host is used, underlying ssh connection can remain open.
16 bus_close does not kill children?
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f38afcd0 18External:
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f38afcd0 20* Fedora: add an rpmlint check that verifies that all unit files in the RPM are listed in %systemd_post macros.
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22* wiki: update journal format documentation for lz4 additions
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24Janitorial Clean-ups:
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26* code cleanup: retire FOREACH_WORD_QUOTED, port to extract_first_word() loops instead
27
28* replace manual readdir() loops with FOREACH_DIRENT or FOREACH_DIRENT_ALL
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30* Get rid of the last strerror() invocations in favour of %m and strerror_r()
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32* Rearrange tests so that the various test-xyz.c match a specific src/basic/xyz.c again
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fd6c2363 34Features:
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36* cache sd_event_now() result from before the first iteration...
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38* remove Capabilities=, after all AmbientCapabilities= and CapabilityBoundingSet= should be enough.
39
40* support for the new copy_file_range() syscall
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42* add systemctl stop --job-mode=triggering that follows TRIGGERED_BY deps and adds them to the same transaction
43
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44* Maybe add a way how users can "pin" units into memory, so that they are not subject to automatic GC?
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46* PID1: find a way how we can reload unit file configuration for
47 specific units only, without reloading the whole of systemd
48
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49* add an explicit parser for LimitNICE= and LimitRTPRIO= that verifies
50 the specified range and generates sane error messages for incorrect
51 specifications. Also, for LimitNICE= maybe introduce a syntax such
52 as "+5" or "-7" in order to make the limits more readable as they
53 are otherwise shifted by 20.
54
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55* do something about "/control" subcgroups in the unified cgroup hierarchy
56
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57* when we detect that there are waiting jobs but no running jobs, do something
58
06ce859b 59* push CPUAffinity= also into the "cpuset" cgroup controller (only after the cpuset controller got ported to the unified hierarchy)
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61* add a new command "systemctl revert" or so, that removes all dropin
62 snippets in /run and /etc, and all unit files with counterparts in
63 /usr, and thus undoes what "systemctl set-property" and "systemctl
64 edit" create. Maybe even add "systemctl revert -a" to do this for
65 all units.
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67* PID 1 should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages (for usage in the --user mode, and when run via nspawn)
68
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69* consider throwing a warning if a service declares it wants to be "Before=" a .device unit.
70
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71* there's probably something wrong with having user mounts below /sys,
72 as we have for debugfs. for exmaple, src/core/mount.c handles mounts
73 prefixed with /sys generally special.
74 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-June/032962.html
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76* man: document that unless you use StandardError=null the shell >/dev/stderr won't work in shell scripts in services
77
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78* install: include generator dirs in unit file search paths
79
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80* rework C11 utf8.[ch] to use char32_t instead of uint32_t when referring
81 to unicode chars, to make things more expressive.
82
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83* fstab-generator: default to tmpfs-as-root if only usr= is specified on the kernel cmdline
84
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85* docs: bring http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/MyServiceCantGetRealtime up to date
86
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87* mounting and unmounting mount points manually with different source
88 devices will result in collected collected on all devices used.
89 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030225.html
90
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91* add a job mode that will fail if a transaction would mean stopping
92 running units. Use this in timedated to manage the NTP service
93 state.
94 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030229.html
95
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96* Maybe add support for the equivalent of "ethtool advertise" to .link files?
97 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-April/030112.html
98
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99* The udev blkid built-in should expose a property that reflects
100 whether media was sensed in USB CF/SD card readers. This should then
101 be used to control SYSTEMD_READY=1/0 so that USB card readers aren't
102 picked up by systemd unless they contain a medium. This would mirror
103 the behaviour we already have for CD drives.
104
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105* networkd/udev: implement SR_IOV configuration in .link files:
106 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027451.html
107
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108* Rework systemctl's GetAll property parsing to use the generic bus_map_all_properties() API
109
39609489 110* implement a per-service firewall based on net_cls
c14db9b3 111
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112* Port various tools to make use of verbs.[ch], where applicable
113
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114* hostnamectl: show root image uuid
115
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116* sysfs set api in libudev is not const
117
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118* Find a solution for SMACK capabilities stuff:
119 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/026188.html
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121* "systemctl preset-all" should probably order the unit files it
122 operates on lexicographically before starting to work, in order to
123 ensure deterministic behaviour if two unit files conflict (like DMs
124 do, for example)
125
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126* synchronize console access with BSD locks:
127 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024582.html
128
129* as soon as we have kdbus, and sender timestamps, revisit coalescing multiple parallel daemon reloads:
130 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-December/025862.html
131
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132* the install state probably shouldn't get confused by generated units, think dbus1/kdbus compat!
133
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134* in systemctl list-unit-files: show the install value the presets would suggest for a service in a third column
135
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136* figure out when we can use the coarse timers
137
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138* add "systemctl start -v foobar.service" that shows logs of a service
139 while the start command runs. This is non-trivial to do without
140 races though, since we should flush out all journal messages before
141 returning from the "systemctl stop".
142
b568ef14 143* firstboot: make it useful to be run immediately after yum --installroot to set up a machine. (most specifically, make --copy-root-password work even if /etc/passwd already exists
c2d5b3c9 144
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145* add infrastructure to allocate dynamic/transient users and UID ranges, for use in user-namespaced containers, per-seat gdm login screens and gdm guest sessions
146
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147* maybe add support for specifier expansion in user.conf, specifically DefaultEnvironment=
148
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149* introduce systemd-timesync-wait.service or so to sync on an NTP fix?
150
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151* systemd --user should issue sd_notify() upon reaching basic.target, not on becoming idle
152
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153* consider showing the unit names during boot up in the status output, not just the unit descriptions
154
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155* maybe allow timer units with an empty Units= setting, so that they
156 can be used for resuming the system but nothing else.
157
25e773ee 158* what to do about udev db binary stability for apps? (raw access is not an option)
b857e042 159
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160* maybe provide an API to allow migration of foreign PIDs into existing scopes.
161
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162* man: maybe use the word "inspect" rather than "introspect"?
163
279f0366 164* systemctl: if some operation fails, show log output?
533bb267 165
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166* systemctl edit:
167- allow creation of units from scratch
168- use equvalent of cat() to insert existing config as a comment, prepended with #.
169 Upon editor exit, lines with one # are removed, lines with two # are left with one #, etc.
202aea45 170
720652b3 171* exponential backoff in timesyncd when we cannot reach a server
42aeb14a 172
720652b3 173* timesyncd: add ugly bus calls to set NTP servers per-interface, for usage by NM
e25b5a8d 174
68685607 175* extract_many_words() should probably be used by a lot of code that
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176 currently uses FOREACH_WORD and friends. For example, most conf
177 parsing callbacks should use it.
178
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179* merge ~/.local/share and ~/.local/lib into one similar /usr/lib and /usr/share....
180
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181* systemd.show_status= should probably have a mode where only failed
182 units are shown.
183
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184* add systemd.abort_on_kill or some other such flag to send SIGABRT instead of SIGKILL
185 (throughout the codebase, not only PID1)
186
9d6db739 187* resolved:
9d6db739 188 - mDNS/DNS-SD
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189 - service registration
190 - service/domain/types browsing
0f47ed0a 191 - avahi compat
9d6db739 192 - DNS-SD service registration from socket units
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193 - resolved should optionally register additional per-interface LLMNR
194 names, so that for the container case we can establish the same name
195 (maybe "host") for referencing the server, everywhere.
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196 - enable DNSSEC by default
197 - allow clients to request DNSSEC for a single lookup even if DNSSEC is off (?)
3f77a1b1 198
e25b5a8d 199* refcounting in sd-resolve is borked
e2a69298 200
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201* Add a new verb "systemctl top"
202
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203* add new gpt type for btrfs volumes
204
a01647e5 205* support empty /etc boots nicely:
3c779fa5 206 - nspawn/gpt-generator: introduce new gpt partition type for /usr
a940778f 207 - fstab-generator: support systemd.volatile=yes|no|state on the kernel cmdline, too, similar to nspawn's --volatile=
a01647e5 208
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209* generator that automatically discovers btrfs subvolumes, identifies their purpose based on some xattr on them.
210
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211* a way for container managers to turn off getty starting via $container_headless= or so...
212
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213* figure out a nice way how we can let the admin know what child/sibling unit causes cgroup membership for a specific unit
214
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215* mount_cgroup_controllers(): symlinks need to get the label applied
216
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217* For timer units: add some mechanisms so that timer units that trigger immediately on boot do not have the services
218 they run added to the initial transaction and thus confuse Type=idle.
e107ed18 219
f598ac3e 220* Run most system services with cgroupfs read-only and procfs with a more secure mode (doesn't work, since the hidepid= option is per-pid-namespace, not per-mount)
11fb37f1 221
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222* add bus api to query unit file's X fields.
223
6a3f892a 224* gpt-auto-generator:
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225 - Support LUKS for root devices
226 - Define new partition type for encrypted swap? Support probed LUKS for encrypted swap?
6a3f892a 227 - Make /home automount rather than mount?
6a3f892a 228
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229* add generator that pulls in systemd-network from containers when
230 CAP_NET_ADMIN is set, more than the loopback device is defined, even
231 when it is otherwise off
f8901862 232
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233* MessageQueueMessageSize= and RLimitFSIZE= (and suchlike) should use parse_iec_size().
234
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235* "busctl status" works only as root on dbus1, since we cannot read
236 /proc/$PID/exe
237
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238* implement Distribute= in socket units to allow running multiple
239 service instances processing the listening socket, and open this up
240 for ReusePort=
241
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242* socket units: support creating sockets in different namespace,
243 opening it up for JoinsNamespaceOf=. This would require to fork off
244 a tiny process that joins the namespace and creates/binds the socket
245 and passes this back to PID1 via SCM_RIGHTS. This also could be used
246 to allow Chown/chgrp on sockets without requiring NSS in PID 1.
247
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248* New service property: maximum CPU and wallclock runtime for a service
249
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250* introduce bus call FreezeUnit(s, b), as well as "systemctl freeze
251 $UNIT" and "systemctl thaw $UNIT" as wrappers around this. The calls
252 should SIGSTOP all unit processes in a loop until all processes of
253 it are fully stopped. This can later be used for app management by
254 desktop UIs such as gnome-shell to freeze apps that are not visible
255 on screen, not unlike how job control works on the shell
256
f38afcd0 257* cgroups:
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258 - implement per-slice CPUFairScheduling=1 switch
259 - handle jointly mounted controllers correctly
260 - introduce high-level settings for RT budget, swappiness
261 - how to reset dynamically changed unit cgroup attributes sanely?
262 - when reloading configuration, apply new cgroup configuration
263 - when recursively showing the cgroup hierarchy, optionally also show
264 the hierarchies of child processes
0bee65f0 265
f38afcd0 266* transient units:
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267 - add field to transient units that indicate whether systemd or somebody else saves/restores its settings, for integration with libvirt
268 - ensure scope units may be started only a single time
ebcf1f97 269
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270* Automatically configure swap partition to use for hibernation by looking for largest swap partition on the root disk?
271
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272* when we detect low battery and no AC on boot, show pretty splash and refuse boot
273
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274* libsystemd-journal, libsystemd-login, libudev: add calls to easily attach these objects to sd-event event loops
275
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276* be more careful what we export on the bus as (usec_t) 0 and (usec_t) -1
277
94676f3e 278* unify dispatch table in systemctl_main() and friends
6fd4d020 279
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280* rfkill,backlight: we probably should run the load tools inside of the udev rules so that the state is properly initialized by the time other software sees it
281
7f79cd71 282* After coming back from hibernation reset hibernation swap partition using the /dev/snapshot ioctl APIs
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284* If we try to find a unit via a dangling symlink, generate a clean
285 error. Currently, we just ignore it and read the unit from the search
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286 path anyway.
287
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288* refuse boot if /etc/os-release is missing or /etc/machine-id cannot be set up
289
6aaa8c2f 290* btrfs raid assembly: some .device jobs stay stuck in the queue
c3bb87db 291
d28315e4 292* make sure gdm does not use multi-user-x but the new default X configuration file, and then remove multi-user-x from systemd
18d4e7c2 293
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294* man: the documentation of Restart= currently is very misleading and suggests the tools from ExecStartPre= might get restarted.
295
296* load .d/*.conf dropins for device units
297
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298* allow implementation of InaccessibleDirectories=/ plus
299 ReadOnlyDirectories=... for whitelisting files for a service.
300
6bb648a1 301* sd-bus:
0d43ffef 302 - EBADSLT handling
fa607802 303 - GetAllProperties() on a non-existing object does not result in a failure currently
d0928791 304 - kdbus: process fd=-1 for incoming msgs
7212c608 305 - port to sd-resolve for connecting to TCP dbus servers
1f140dd8 306 - kdbus: maybe add controlling tty metadata fields
57f2a947 307 - see if we can introduce a new sd_bus_get_owner_machine_id() call to retrieve the machine ID of the machine of the bus itself
d28315e4 308 - when kdbus does not take our message without memfds, try again with memfds
f38afcd0 309 - see if we can drop more message validation on the sending side
f38afcd0 310 - add API to clone sd_bus_message objects
dc17bcef 311 - make AddMatch calls on dbus1 transports async?
80caea6c 312 - kdbus: matches against source or destination pids for an "strace -p"-like feel. Problem: The PID info needs to be available in userspace too...
ab9716c2 313 - longer term: priority inheritance
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314 - dbus spec updates:
315 - kdbus mapping
316 - NameLost/NameAcquired obsolete
317 - GVariant
2ecfc64e 318 - path escaping
6a8b5fa4 319 - update systemd.special(7) to mention that dbus.socket is only about the compatibility socket now
69727e6d 320 - test bloom filter generation indexes
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321 - bus-proxy: when passing messages from kdbus, make sure we properly
322 handle the case where a large number of fds is appended that we
323 cannot pass into sendmsg() of the AF_UNIX sokcet (which only accepts
324 253 messages)
b568ef14 325 - kdbus: introduce a concept of "send-only" connections
0ad68f87 326 - kdbus: add counter for refused unicast messages that is passed out via the RECV ioctl. SImilar to the counter for dropped multicast messages we already have.
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328* sd-event
12179984 329 - allow multiple signal handlers per signal?
0536ce5d 330 - document chaining of signal handler for SIGCHLD and child handlers
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331 - define more intervals where we will shift wakeup intervals around in, 1h, 6h, 24h, ...
332 - generate a failure of a default event loop is executed out-of-thread
333 - maybe add support for inotify events
eb01ba5d 334
69af4503 335* investigate endianness issues of UUID vs. GUID
e8a7a315 336
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337* dbus: when a unit failed to load (i.e. is in UNIT_ERROR state), we
338 should be able to safely try another attempt when the bus call LoadUnit() is invoked.
339
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340* add a pam module that passes the hdd passphrase into the PAM stack and then expires it, for usage by gdm auto-login.
341
342* add a pam module that on password changes updates any LUKS slot where the password matches
343
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344* maybe add a generator that looks for "systemd.run=" on the kernel cmdline for container usercases...
345
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346* cgtop: make cgtop useful in a container
347
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348* test/:
349 - add 'set -e' to scripts in test/
350 - make stuff in test/ work with separate output dir
b8b4d3dd 351
b5c03638 352* seems that when we follow symlinks to units we prefer the symlink
d28315e4 353 destination path over /etc and /usr. We should not do that. Instead
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354 /etc should always override /run+/usr and also any symlink
355 destination.
356
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357* when isolating, try to figure out a way how we implicitly can order
358 all units we stop before the isolating unit...
359
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360* teach ConditionKernelCommandLine= globs or regexes (in order to match foobar={no,0,off})
361
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362* BootLoaderSpec: Clarify that the kernel has to be in $BOOT. Clarify
363 that the boot loader should be installed to the ESP. Define a way
364 how an installer can figure out whether a BLS compliant boot loader
365 is installed.
795607b2 366
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367* think about requeuing jobs when daemon-reload is issued? usecase:
368 the initrd issues a reload after fstab from the host is accessible
369 and we might want to requeue the mounts local-fs acquired through
370 that automatically.
371
e5ec62c5 372* systemd-inhibit: make taking delay locks useful: support sending SIGINT or SIGTERM on PrepareForSleep()
54c31a79 373
d28315e4 374* remove any syslog support from log.c -- we probably cannot do this before split-off udev is gone for good
826872b6 375
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376* shutdown logging: store to EFI var, and store to USB stick?
377
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378* think about window-manager-run-as-user-service problem: exit 0 → activate shutdown.target; exit != 0 → restart service
379
356ce991 380* merge unit_kill_common() and unit_kill_context()
490b7e47 381
81d112a8 382* introduce ExecCondition= in services
490b7e47 383
b44be3ec 384* EFI:
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385 - honor language efi variables for default language selection (if there are any?)
386 - honor timezone efi variables for default timezone selection (if there are any?)
466784c8 387 - change bootctl to be backed by systemd-bootd to control temporary and persistent default boot goal plus efi variables
e4181484 388
c0fe5db5 389* maybe do not install getty@tty1.service symlink in /etc but in /usr?
e9fd44b7 390
b44be3ec 391* print a nicer explanation if people use variable/specifier expansion in ExecStart= for the first word
8ed20651 392
b44be3ec 393* mount: turn dependency information from /proc/self/mountinfo into dependency information between systemd units.
e6c6e7af 394
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395* logind:
396 - logind: optionally, ignore idle-hint logic for autosuspend, block suspend as long as a session is around
397 - When we update the kernel all kind of hibernation should be prohibited until shutdown/reboot
398 - logind: wakelock/opportunistic suspend support
399 - Add pretty name for seats in logind
400 - logind: allow showing logout dialog from system?
e5ec62c5 401 - we should probably handle SIGTERM/SIGINT to not leave dot files around, just in case
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402 - session scopes/user unit: add RequiresMountsFor for the home directory of the user
403 - add Suspend() bus calls which take timestamps to fix double suspend issues when somebody hits suspend and closes laptop quickly.
404 - if pam_systemd is invoked by su from a process that is outside of a
405 any session we should probably just become a NOP, since that's
406 usually not a real user session but just some system code that just
407 needs setuid().
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408 - logind: make the Suspend()/Hibernate() bus calls wait for the for
409 the job to be completed. before returning, so that clients can wait
410 for "systemctl suspend" to finish to know when the suspending is
411 complete.
412 - logind: when the power button is pressed short, just popup a
413 logout dialog. If it is pressed for 1s, do the usual
414 shutdown. Inspiration are Macs here.
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415 - expose "Locked" property on logind sesison objects
416 - given that logind now lets PID 1 do all nasty work, we can
417 probably reduce the capability set it retains substantially.
418 (we need CAP_SYS_ADMIN for drmSetMaster(), so maybe not worth it)
b568ef14 419 - expose orientation sensors and tablet mode through logind
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420 - maybe allow configuration of the StopTimeout for session scopes
421 - rename session scope so that it includes the UID. THat way
422 the session scope can be arranged freely in slices and we don't have
423 make assumptions about their slice anymore.
424 - follow PropertiesChanged state more closely, to deal with quick logouts and
425 relogins
e673ad04 426
b44be3ec 427* exec: when deinitializating a tty device fix the perms and group, too, not only when initializing. Set access mode/gid to 0620/tty.
e673ad04 428
b44be3ec 429* service: watchdog logic: for testing purposes allow ping, but do not require pong
e673ad04 430
b44be3ec 431* journal:
57f2a947 432 - consider introducing implicit _TTY= + _PPID= + _EUID= + _EGID= + _FSUID= + _FSGID= fields
c06bf414 433 - import and delete pstore filesystem content at startup
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434 - journald: also get thread ID from client, plus thread name
435 - journal: when waiting for journal additions in the client always sleep at least 1s or so, in order to minimize wakeups
436 - add API to close/reopen/get fd for journal client fd in libsystemd-journal.
d28315e4 437 - fallback to /dev/log based logging in libsystemd-journal, if we cannot log natively?
b44be3ec 438 - declare the local journal protocol stable in the wiki interface chart
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439 - sd-journal: speed up sd_journal_get_data() with transparent hash table in bg
440 - journald: when dropping msgs due to ratelimit make sure to write
441 "dropped %u messages" not only when we are about to print the next
442 message that works, but alraedy after a short tiemout
443 - check if we can make journalctl by default use --follow mode inside of less if called without args?
444 - maybe add API to send pairs of iovecs via sd_journal_send
445 - journal: when writing journal auto-rotate if time jumps backwards
f47ec8eb 446 - journal: add a setgid "systemd-journal" utility to invoke from libsystemd-journal, which passes fds via STDOUT and does PK access
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447 - journactl: support negative filtering, i.e. FOOBAR!="waldo",
448 and !FOOBAR for events without FOOBAR.
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449 - journal: store timestamp of journal_file_set_offline() int he header,
450 so it is possible to display when the file was last synced.
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451 - journal-send.c, log.c: when the log socket is clogged, and we drop, count this and write a message about this when it gets unclogged again.
452 - journal: find a way to allow dropping history early, based on priority, other rules
453 - journal: When used on NFS, check payload hashes
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454 - journald: add kernel cmdline option to disable ratelimiting for debug purposes
455 - refuse taking lower-case variable names in sd_journal_send() and friends.
456 - journald: we currently rotate only after MaxUse+MaxFilesize has been reached.
457 - journal: deal nicely with byte-by-byte copied files, especially regards header
b44be3ec 458 - journal: sanely deal with entries which are larger than the individual file size, but where the components would fit
601d9d6f 459 - Replace utmp, wtmp, btmp, and lastlog completely with journal
f38afcd0 460 - journalctl: instead --after-cursor= maybe have a --cursor=XYZ+1 syntax?
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461 - when a kernel driver logs in a tight loop, we should ratelimit that too.
462 - journald: optionally, log debug messages to /run but everything else to /var
463 - journald: when we drop syslog messages because the syslog socket is
464 full, make sure to write how many messages are lost as first thing
465 to syslog when it works again.
466 - journald: make sure ratelimit is actually really per-service with the new cgroup changes
467 - change systemd-journal-flush into a service that stays around during
468 boot, and causes the journal to be moved back to /run on shutdown,
d28315e4 469 so that we do not keep /var busy. This needs to happen synchronously,
f38afcd0 470 hence doing this via signals is not going to work.
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471 - optionally support running journald from the command line for testing purposes in external projects
472 - journald: allow per-priority and per-service retention times when rotating/vacuuming
473 - journald: make use of uid-range.h to managed uid ranges to split
474 journals in.
475 - journalctl: add the ability to look for the most recent process of a binary. journalctl /usr/bin/X11 --pid=-1 or so...
476 - improve journalctl performance by loading journal files
477 lazily. Encode just enough information in the file name, so that we
478 do not have to open it to know that it is not interesting for us, for
479 the most common operations.
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480 - journal-or-kmsg is currently broken? See reverted
481 commit 4a01181e460686d8b4a543b1dfa7f77c9e3c5ab8.
482 - man: document that corrupted journal files is nothing to act on
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483 - rework journald sigbus stuff to use mutex
484 - Set RLIMIT_NPROC for systemd-journal-xyz, and all other of our
485 services that run under their own user ids, and use User= (but only
486 in a world where userns is ubiquitous since otherwise we cannot
487 invoke those daemons on the host AND in a container anymore). Also,
488 if LimitNPROC= is used without User= we should warn and refuse
489 operation.
490 - journalctl --verify: don't show files that are currently being
491 written to as FAIL, but instead show that their are being written to.
492 - add journalctl -H that talks via ssh to a remote peer and passes through
493 binary logs data
494 - change journalctl -M to acquire fd to journal directory via machined, and
495 then operate on that via openat() instead of absolute paths
496 - add a version of --merge which also merges /var/log/journal/remote
497 - log accumulated resource usage after each service invocation
498 - journalctl: -m should access container journals directly by enumerating
499 them via machined, and also watch containers coming and going.
500 Benefit: nspawn --ephemeral would start working nicely with the journal.
501 - assign MESSAGE_ID to log messages about failed services
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503* document:
8b8f2591 504 - document that deps in [Unit] sections ignore Alias= fields in
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506 - man: clarify that time-sync.target is not only sysv compat but also useful otherwise. Same for similar targets
b44be3ec 507 - document the exit codes when services fail before they are exec()ed
b44be3ec 508 - document that service reload may be implemented as service reexec
eb124a97 509 - document in wiki how to map ical recurrence events to systemd timer unit calendar specifications
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510 - add a man page containing packaging guidelines and recommending usage of things like Documentation=, PrivateTmp=, PrivateNetwork= and ReadOnlyDirectories=/etc /usr.
511 - document systemd-journal-flush.service properly
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512 - documentation: recommend to connect the timer units of a service to the service via Also= in [Install]
513 - man: document the very specific env the shutdown drop-in tools live in
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514 - man: add more examples to man pages
515 - man: maybe sort directives in man pages, and take sections from --help and apply them to man too
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517* systemctl:
518 - systemctl list-jobs - show dependencies
519 - add systemctl switch to dump transaction without executing it
520 - Add a verbose mode to "systemctl start" and friends that explains what is being done or not done
521 - "systemctl disable" on a static unit prints no message and does
522 nothing. "systemctl enable" does nothing, and gives a bad message
523 about it. Should fix both to print nice actionable messages.
524 - print nice message from systemctl --failed if there are no entries shown, and hook that into ExecStartPre of rescue.service/emergency.service
525 - add new command to systemctl: "systemctl system-reexec" which reexecs as many daemons as virtually possible
d28315e4 526 - systemctl enable: fail if target to alias into does not exist? maybe show how many units are enabled afterwards?
b44be3ec 527 - systemctl: "Journal has been rotated since unit was started." message is misleading
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528 - better error message if you run systemctl without systemd running
529 - systemctl status output should should include list of triggering units and their status
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531* unit install:
532 - "systemctl mask" should find all names by which a unit is accessible
533 (i.e. by scanning for symlinks to it) and link them all to /dev/null
f38afcd0 534 - systemctl list-unit-files should list generated files (and probably with a new state "generated" for them, or so)
8b04b925 535
b44be3ec 536* timer units:
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537 - timer units should get the ability to trigger when:
538 o CLOCK_REALTIME makes jumps (TFD_TIMER_CANCEL_ON_SET)
539 o DST changes
eb124a97 540 - Support 2012-02~4 as syntax for specifying the fourth to last day of the month.
f38afcd0 541 - calendarspec: support value ranges with ".." notation. Example: 2013-4..8-1
90e071d1 542 - Modulate timer frequency based on battery state
d2e83c23 543
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545
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546* clean up date formatting and parsing so that all absolute/relative timestamps we format can also be parsed
547
b44be3ec 548* on shutdown: move utmp, wall, audit logic all into PID 1 (or logind?), get rid of systemd-update-utmp-runlevel
08f95888 549
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550* make repeated alt-ctrl-del presses printing a dump, or even force a reboot without
551 waiting for the timeout
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553* hostnamed: before returning information from /etc/machine-info.conf check the modification data and reread. Similar for localed, ...
554
d28315e4 555* currently x-systemd.timeout is lost in the initrd, since crypttab is copied into dracut, but fstab is not
1b89884b 556
b44be3ec 557* nspawn:
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558 - to allow "linking" of nspawn containers, extend --network-bridge= so
559 that it can dynamically create bridge interfaces that are refcounted
560 by the containers on them. For each group of containers to link together
561 - refuses to boot containers without /etc/machine-id (OK?), and with empty
562 /etc/machine-id (not OK).
563 - nspawn -x should support ephemeral instances of gpt images
564 - emulate /dev/kmsg using CUSE and turn off the syslog syscall
565 with seccomp. That should provide us with a useful log buffer that
566 systemd can log to during early boot, and disconnect container logs
567 from the kernel's logs.
568 - as soon as networkd has a bus interface, hook up --network-interface=,
569 --network-bridge= with networkd, to trigger netdev creation should an
570 interface be missing
571 - don't copy /etc/resolv.conf from host into container unless we are in
572 shared-network mode
573 - a nice way to boot up without machine id set, so that it is set at boot
574 automatically for supporting --ephemeral. Maybe hash the host machine id
575 together with the machine name to generate the machine id for the container
576 - fix logic always print a final newline on output.
577 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/272#issuecomment-113153176
578 - should optionally support receiving WATCHDOG=1 messages from its payload
579 PID 1...
580 - should send out sd_notify("WATCHDOG=1") messages
581 - optionally automatically add FORWARD rules to iptables whenever nspawn is
582 running, remove them when shut down.
583 - add a logic for cleaning up read-only, hidden container images in
584 /var/lib/machines that are not ancestors of any non-hidden containers
585 - Improve error message when --bind= is used on a non-existing source
586 directory
587 - maybe make copying of /etc/resolv.conf optional, and skip it if --read-only
588 is used
589
590* machined:
591 - "machinectl list" should probably show columns for OS version and IP
592 addresses
593 - add an API so that libvirt-lxc can inform us about network interfaces being
594 removed or added to an existing machine
595 - "machinectl migrate" or similar to copy a container from or to a
596 difference host, via ssh
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598 "machinectl start" with a new --ephemeral switch
599 - "machinectl status" should also show internal logs of the container in
600 question
601 - "machinectl list-images" should show os-release data, as well as
602 machine-info data (including deployment level)
603 - "machinectl history"
604 - "machinectl diff"
605 - "machinectl commit" that takes a writable snapshot of a tree, invokes a
606 shell in it, and marks it read-only after use
607
608* importd:
e25b5a8d 609 - generate a nice warning if mkfs.btrfs is missing
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611* cryptsetup:
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612 - cryptsetup-generator: allow specification of passwords in crypttab itself
613 - move cryptsetup key caching into kernel keyctl?
614 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54982
5f1dac6b 615 - support rd.luks.allow-discards= kernel cmdline params in cryptsetup generator
f8019684 616
424a19f8 617* hw watchdog: optionally try to use the preset watchdog timeout instead of always overriding it
41f9172f 618 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54712
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621
68f16003 622* MountFlags=shared acts as MountFlags=slave right now.
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624* properly handle loop back mounts via fstab, especially regards to fsck/passno
625
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627
88a6c589 628* rename "userspace" to "core-os"
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abd55b16 630* udev:
abd55b16 631 - move to LGPL
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633 - add trigger --subsystem-match=usb/usb_device device
e8d842a0 634 - reimport udev db after MOVE events for devices without dev_t
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636* when a service has the same env var set twice we actually store it twice and return that in systemctl show -p... We should only show the last setting
637
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639
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640* add option to sockets to avoid activation. Instead just drop packets/connections, see http://cyberelk.net/tim/2012/02/15/portreserve-systemd-solution/
641
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642* coredump:
643 - save coredump in Windows/Mozilla minidump format
644 - move PID 1 segfaults to /var/lib/systemd/coredump?
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646* support crash reporting operation modes (https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/ProblemReporting)
647
70a44afe 648* default to actual 32-bit PIDs, via /proc/sys/kernel/pid_max
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650* be able to specify a forced restart of service A where service B depends on, in case B
651 needs to be auto-respawned?
652
f38afcd0 653* tmpfiles:
f38afcd0 654 - apply "x" on "D" too (see patch from William Douglas)
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656 - instead of ignoring unknown fields, reject them.
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657 - creating new directories/subvolumes/fifos/device nodes
658 should not follow symlinks. None of the other adjustment or creation
659 calls follow symlinks.
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662
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664 when we start a service in order to avoid confusion when a user
665 assumes starting a service is enough to make it accessible
666
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668 the kernel cmdline. Right now setting one resets also the other.
669
71092d70 670* and a dbus call to generate target from current state
916abb21 671
68c7d001 672* write blog stories about:
796b06c2 673 - hwdb: what belongs into it, lsusb
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674 - enabling dbus services
675 - status update
7a2a0b90 676 - how to make changes to sysctl and sysfs attributes
253ee27a 677 - remote access
5d0fcd7c 678 - how to pass throw-away units to systemd, or dynamically change properties of existing units
8bbabc44 679 - testing with Harald's awesome test kit
f530371f 680 - auto-restart
e707c494 681 - how to develop against journal browsing APIs
a19554ed 682 - the journal HTTP iface
a73d88fa 683 - non-cgroup resource management
a74a8793 684 - dynamic resource management with cgroups
3040728b 685 - refreshed, longer missions statement
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687 - init=/bin/sh vs. "emergency" mode, vs. "rescue" mode, vs. "multi-user" mode, vs. "graphical" mode, and the debug shell
688 - how to create your own target
689 - instantiated apache, dovecot and so on
690 - hooking a script into various stages of shutdown/rearly booot
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692* investigate whether the gnome pty helper should be moved into systemd, to provide cgroup support.
693
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694* dot output for --test showing the 'initial transaction'
695
71092d70 696* fingerprint.target, wireless.target, gps.target, netdevice.target
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698* pid1:
699 - .timer units should optionally support CLOCK_BOOTTIME in addition to CLOCK_MONOTONIC
700 - When logging about multiple units (stopping BoundTo units, conflicts, etc.),
701 log both units as UNIT=, so that journalctl -u triggers on both.
702 - generate better errors when people try to set transient properties
703 that are not supported...
704 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-February/028076.html
705 - maybe introduce WantsMountsFor=? Usecase:
706 http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-January/027729.html
707 - recreate systemd's D-Bus private socket file on SIGUSR2
708 - GC unreferenced jobs (such as .device jobs)
709 - move PAM code into its own binary
710 - when we automatically restart a service, ensure we restart its rdeps, too.
711 - for services: do not set $HOME in services unless requested
712 - hide PAM options in fragment parser when compile time disabled
713 - Support --test based on current system state
714 - If we show an error about a unit (such as not showing up) and it has no Description string, then show a description string generated form the reverse of unit_name_mangle().
715 - after deserializing sockets in socket.c we should reapply sockopts and things
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716 - drop PID 1 reloading, only do reexecing (difficult: Reload()
717 currently is properly synchronous, Reexec() is weird, because we
718 cannot delay the response properly until we are back, so instead of
719 being properly synchronous we just keep open the fd and close it
720 when done. That means clients do not get a successful method reply,
721 but much rather a disconnect on success.
722 - when breaking cycles drop sysv services first, then services from /run, then from /etc, then from /usr
723 - when a bus name of a service disappears from the bus make sure to queue further activation requests
724
725* unit files:
726 - allow port=0 in .socket units
727 - maybe introduce ExecRestartPre=
728 - add ReloadSignal= for configuring a reload signal to use
729 - implement Register= switch in .socket units to enable registration
730 in Avahi, RPC and other socket registration services.
731 - allow Type=simple with PIDFile=
732 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=723942
733 - allow writing multiple conditions in unit files on one line
734 - load-fragment: when loading a unit file via a chain of symlinks
735 verify that it is not masked via any of the names traversed.
736 - introduce Type=pid-file
737 - ExecOnFailure=/usr/bin/foo
738 - introduce mix of BindTo and Requisite
739 - add a concept of RemainAfterExit= to scope units
740 - Set NoNewPrivileges= on all of our own services, where that makes sense
741 - Allow multiple ExecStart= for all Type= settings, so that we can cover rescue.service nicely
742 - consider adding RuntimeDirectoryUser= + RuntimeDirectoryGroup=
743
7ba97195 744* systemd-python:
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746 works with ^C
b04c8c83 747 - add documentation to systemd.daemon
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750 - plot per-process IO utilization
751 - group processes based on service association (cgroups)
752 - document initcall_debug
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754
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755* udev-link-config:
756 - Make sure ID_PATH is always exported and complete for
757 network devices where possible, so we can safely rely
758 on Path= matching
8faf88e5 759 - check MTUBytes parsing (expecting size_t but we are using unsigned)
af6f0d42 760
88e4d1d7 761* sd-rtnl:
88e4d1d7 762 - add support for more attribute types
c589a0e6 763 - inbuilt piping support (essentially degenerate async)? see loopback-setup.c and other places
88e4d1d7 764
0a4b9a07 765* networkd:
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767 - add support for more DHCPv4 options (and, longer term, other kinds of dynamic config)
0a4b9a07 768 - add proper initrd support (in particular generate .network/.link files based on /proc/cmdline)
e8d842a0 769 - add reduced [Link] support to .network files
5c1d3fc9 770 - add Scope= parsing option for [Network]
798e174a 771 - properly handle routerless dhcp leases
8477107d 772 - add more attribute support for SIT tunnel
a8eaaee7 773 - work with non-Ethernet devices
c9fa3670 774 - add support for more bond options
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775 - dhcp: do we allow configuring dhcp routes on interfaces that are not the one we got the dhcp info from?
776 - add LLDP client side support
777 - the DHCP lease data (such as NTP/DNS) is still made available when
778 a carrier is lost on a link. It should be removed instantly.
779 - expose in the API the following bits:
780 - option 15, domain name and/or option 119, search list
781 - option 12, host name and/or option 81, fqdn
782 - option 123, 144, geolocation
783 - option 252, configure http proxy (PAC/wpad)
784 - provide a way to define a per-network interface default metric value
785 for all routes to it. possibly a second default for DHCP routes.
786 - allow Name= to be specified repeatedly in the [Match] section. Maybe also
787 support Name=foo*|bar*|baz ?
788 - duplicate address check for static IPs (like ARPCHECK in network-scripts)
789 - allow DUID/IAID to be customized, see issue #394.
790 - support configuration option for TSO (tcp segmentation offload)
791 - whenever uplink info changes, make DHCP server send out FORCERENEW
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794 - make operstates to wait for configurable?
8f5675cc 795
ac976532 796* dhcp:
424a8732 797 - figure out how much we can increase Maximum Message Size
99f9dd8d 798 - support RFC4702 (pass FQDN)
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801 - add functions to set previously stored IPv6 addresses on startup and get
802 them at shutdown; store them in client->ia_na
803 - write more test cases
37d8b536 804 - implement reconfigure support, see 5.3., 15.11. and 22.20.
37d8b536 805 - implement support for temporary adressess (IA_TA)
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806 - implement dhcpv6 authentication
807 - investigate the usefulness of Confirm messages; i.e. are there any
808 situations where the link changes without any loss in carrier detection
809 or interface down
810 - some servers don't do rapid commit without a filled in IA_NA, verify
811 this behavior
812
2f8cd170 813External:
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cc9784c6 815* dbus:
3377af3e 816 - natively watch for dbus-*.service symlinks (PENDING)
b44be3ec 817 - teach dbus to activate all services it finds in /etc/systemd/services/org-*.service
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822
9096ad36 823* patch kernel for xattr support in /dev, /proc/, /sys?
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71092d70 825* kernel: add device_type = "fb", "fbcon" to class "graphics"
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d2bbca68 833* fedora: suggest auto-restart on failure, but not on success and not on coredump. also, ask people to think about changing the start limit logic. Also point people to RestartPreventExitStatus=, SuccessExitStatus=
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835* fedora: F20: go timer units all the way, leave cron.daily for cron
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837* neither pkexec nor sudo initialize environ[] from the PAM environment?
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4641a16b 839* fedora: update policy to declare access mode and ownership of unit files to root:root 0644, and add an rpmlint check for it
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842
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844 - <command> <verb> -<TAB> should complete options, but currently does not
409886c4 845 - systemctl add-wants,add-requires
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2c12a402 847
129126f3 848Regularly:
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129126f3 850* look for close() vs. close_nointr() vs. close_nointr_nofail()
5021be21 851
129126f3 852* check for strerror(r) instead of strerror(-r)
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854* Use PR_SET_PROCTITLE_AREA if it becomes available in the kernel
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857
d28315e4 858* set_put(), hashmap_put() return values check. i.e. == 0 does not free()!
a3a3e5b6 859
4db17f29 860* use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() where appropriate
88fae6e0 861
d05c556b 862* link up selected blog stories from man pages and unit files Documentation= fields